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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, September 2, 1862. Read
first and 'second times and referred to Committee of Ways and Means.
Sept. 10, 1862. Reported back, passage recommended, placed on
Calendar, and ordered to be printed.

A. BILL

To be entitled An Act for the relief of disbursing officers
and other agents of the Government in certain cases.

1 Section 1. The Congress of the Con federate Stales of

2 America do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury

3 be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, , upon

4 satisfactory proof being adduced to him, that any money,

5 bonds, Treasury notes, or other funds, have been de-

6 stroyecl by any disbursing officer or other agent of the

7 Government, and that such destruction was necessary to

8 prevent such money or funds from falling into the hands
0 of the enemy, to credit such disbursing officer or agent

10 with the amount thereof in the settlement of his accounts

11 with the Government.

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